This is a picture of Idan Raichel and Vieux Farka TourĂ© performing at Symphony Space in New York in 2014. They performed an arrangement of music Raichel had written for Psalm 136. He explained to the audience before he performed it: “In my side of the world, you are not great until your music is heard in the synagogues.” It struck me at the time as a comment in the mode of the medieval Spanish poets writing both secular and liturgical poetry, both as different ways of showing off themselves and the Hebrew language.
The psalm starts at the 7:35 mark below, but listen to the whole thing; it’s music I love.
This one, the sound isn’t as good and he’s kind of dithering around a bit, but he’s performing in a synagogue setting: